The Settings page can be accessed by clicking the Settings icon in the upper right corner and then clicking Settings here.
The General tab contains various settings that control the way Gmail operates.
Using the Gmail display language drop-down menu, you can change your Gmail display language language language.
With the Input tools option, you can type in French, Arabic etc.
Click Edit tools to select the language of your choice.
Next on this tab is the Maximum page size and contacts option. The default settings are to show 50 conversations and 250 contacts per page, but we can edit these to suit our needs.
Undo Send will help you pull back messages right after you send them.
The Desktop Notifications option will pop up a notification on your desktop when a new message arrives.
Keyboard shortcuts can help you save time, but they may not work with certain kinds of keyboards.
You can change Gmail’s buttons to show the button's text instead of an icon.
The People Widget tool helps in finding information connected to an email sender. It displays recent information about the contacts in your current email message.
If you want to enter a Signature, you can also do so here.
Setting a Vacation responder may be useful if you cannot sign in to Gmail for a while.
Gmail automatically replies to all incoming messages using the Subject and Message your Specify here.
When finished, click the Save Changes button.
Your Gmail session may need to be restarted, depending on your settings.
Return to the Settings page.
Now go to Accounts and Import.
Much of what’s here is covered in our other tutorials. Be sure to watch those for more details.
The Check email from other accounts option allows you to configure Gmail to regularly check your other accounts for mail. New mail will appear automatically in Gmail.
The Grant access to your account option allows others to read and send mail on your behalf.
The Labels tab, Forwarding and Themes tabs are covered in other tutorials.
Click the Labs tab.
Gmail Labs contains experimental features that aren’t quite ready for everyone to use. Features listed here may change, break or disappear at any time. You can try anything you want here, but remember, it’s at your own risk.
Take note of this highlighted link. If you try a Labs feature and have trouble accessing your Inbox, using this will disable all Labs features and should fix the problem.
Click the Add-ons tab.
Add-ons are applications that extend the functionality of Gmail.
You can click Get add-ons to view the available add-ons.
Click the Offline tab.
Installing the Gmail Offline app, you can read, respond to, and search your Gmail messages when you aren’t connected to the Internet.
Click the Inbox tab.
You can choose to format your Gmail inbox, including seeing unread messages first or having inbox categories.
Enabling the Importance markers settings will allow Gmail to mark your emails as important or not important automatically.
Gmail uses several signals to decide which messages to automatically mark as important, including who you email, how often you email them, keywords used in your email, and emails you archive or star.
The Filtered mail setting allows you to override the mail filters if any are configured.
When finished, click Save Changes.
This is the end of the tutorial. You now have a good idea of what many of the Gmail Settings do and how to customize them.